Ekaterina Koroleva, Director of Social Projects at Micron JSC, described the situation in the industry in these words. According to her, the shortage of specialists in microelectronics is a consequence of the same fashion for professions.
The shortage of personnel in Russia is now estimated at 5 million people, and by 2030 it may grow 4-5 times, Anna Yablochkina, president of the Association of Career Guidance Specialists, said during a round table in St. Petersburg. The information she voiced correlates with previously published data from the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which estimated the shortage of personnel in the country at 4.8 million people by the end of 2023. Microelectronics is one of the industries that is sorely lacking workers.
The assessment by career guidance specialists of the personnel shortage in the country is tougher than the assessment of the official authorities. Thus, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation in 2024 reported a deficit of 1.5 million people, with an increase to 2 million people by 2030. In turn, the HeadHunter recruitment service previously predicted that the shortage of personnel in Russia could reach 4 million people in the next five years.
Yablochkina believes that part of the personnel shortage was formed as a result of improper professional orientation of school graduates. In universities, they choose fashionable professions, despite the promising and necessary country. Programming, for example, is now considered a fashionable trend, however, as experts point out, with the development of artificial intelligence, it ceases to be in demand.
In one or two years, there will be an oversupply of software developers in Russia, Olesya Neikova, vice president of the Association of Career Guidance Specialists, said in an interview with Telesputnik. Another thing, she said, is microelectronics, where there is a shortage of engineers.
Ekaterina Koroleva, Director of Social Projects at Micron JSC, described the situation in the industry in these words. According to her, the shortage of specialists in microelectronics is a consequence of the same fashion for professions. "For the last 30 years, everyone wanted to be lawyers and economists, but not engineers, and even more so microelectronics engineers," she explained.
Koroleva noted that Micron is looking for "diamonds" among schoolchildren and students, organizes excursions to the plant for them, and previously launched a special project in which young people are invited to targeted bachelor's and master's degree programs at nine Russian universities.
Seven to ten years ago, Russian companies believed that it would take a long time and inefficiently to find staff in schools, Mikhail Zenkin, Deputy director of the GBNOU Academy of Talents, said during the round table. However, now, according to his estimates, two thirds of the leading companies work with schoolchildren.
According to Lydia Leonova, HR Director of the biopharmaceutical company Samson-Med, talented students at the company's lyceums are literally being taken away from high school. According to her, the queue is for students who, on the one hand, are strong in computer science, on the other – in biology and chemistry. In the future, such graduates may become bioinformatics and chemoinformatics specialists, who are in high demand in medical and pharmaceutical companies, agrobiotechnology and the chemical industry. However, the same pharmaceutical companies have to compete with the IT business for talented students, which offers higher incomes.
During the round table, experts also talked about various distortions in personnel policy. So, in St. Petersburg, one of the high-ranking officials had previously stated that the city no longer needed specialists with higher education. Meanwhile, the Center for Advanced Professional Training (CEPP) of the city, using the personnel forecast of the Ministry of Labor, compiled the top 5 priority professions. Along with working professions (locksmiths and storekeepers), specialists with higher education are included in this list – lawyers, industrial engineers and electronics engineers. However, as the recent PSCO survey showed, the younger generation in the city does not want to work either as locksmiths or engineers.
Earlier it was reported that the shortage of personnel in the Russian electronics industry has reached serious proportions. In a number of areas, the engineers just ran out.
Source: telesputnik.ru
